Word: nile
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...expert on exotic rivers. Five years ago, as our Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, he suggested and did the reporting for the color story on the Amazon (Nov. 23, 1959). Not long after he became Beirut bureau chief in 1962, he began to visualize color pages of the Nile. Last summer he sold his idea to the editors; the results, thousands of miles, words and transparencies later, are the eight pages of color pictures and a timely story...
Nothing in this newborn star quite conforms to the clichés of stardom. Her profile might have come from an ancient bas-relief found in the valley of the Nile, but her tongue is asphalt-coated in the speech patterns of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her voice is too nasal to be winningly melodic, but she uses it like a jazz instrument, improvising a jumping rhetoric of sound. She can bring a song phrase to a growling halt, or let it drift lyrically like a ribbon of smoke. Her lyrics seem not to have been learned...
...Karachi. In 1853 he became the first Englishman to reach Mecca and live to write about it. In 1857, his expedition pushed some 800 miles through desert and jungle to discover Lake Tanganyika, and they were the first whites ever to come close to the source of the Nile...
...Britain's far-flung battle line. Whether the enemy was a spear-swinging Somali shifta or a Japanese marine behind a clattering Nambu machine gun, the well-disciplined askaris of the K.A.R. could be counted on to attack as ordered. Last week, from the headwaters of the Nile to the beaches of the Indian Ocean, the Rifles were barking again. But this time their muzzles were trained on British troops and their own recently independent governments...
Short-lived Triumph. Even as he spoke, the infection of mutiny was spreading. At Jinja, neighboring Uganda's second largest city located at the headwaters of the Nile some 50 miles east of the Kampala capital, two companies of the Uganda Rifles followed the example set by their former brothers-in-arms. They locked up their British officers and demanded a pay hike similar to that which the Tanganyikan troops had asked for. When Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote sent his Internal Affairs Minister to negotiate, they arrested him as well. But Obote had learned from Nyerere...